The Trudeau Liberals (and Michael Moore) wish Canucks would ignore

American film-maker and certified lefty Michael Moore has been a fan of Canada ever since he mailed a VHS copy of his first documentary, Roger & Me, in a plain brown paper bag to the Vancouver International Film Festival and it went on to win a top prize. Mr Moore has long viewed America's northern neighbour as a more decent, humanitarian version of the Paranoid States of America. So it was "crushing", he said in Vancouver on Friday, to see photographs of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau made up in blackface.

Mr Moore thinks Canucks should overlook Just In's foibles and vote for him again. But just 25% of the country agrees that he deserves to be re-elected. That's according to a poll published yesterday by the Toronto Sun as part of the DART & Maru/Blue Voice Canada Poll. When asked if it is time for a change in government or if the government deserved to be re-elected, 55% said it was time for a change. Only 25% said they thought Mr Socks and the Liberals had done a good job.

The big question is, will some of the 55% hold their noses and vote for M Trudeau and his Gliberal team anyway? Every poll of voting intentions (a different question from the one posed in this poll) has the Liberals in the low 30% range of decided voters, in a statistical tie with Andrew Scheer's Mildly Conservatives. Will the Leaders' Debate tonight change many minds? Will more pix of Just In, in an offensive costume of some sort, surface between now and election day? Will anything happen that will break the tie? Stay tuned!